Chapter 9: Reunion
Starting from Yangon, Myanmar, which is getting hotter and hotter, and crossing the vast Pacific Ocean, Xu Peipei always feels that she is dreaming, but what supports her long journey is that her husband is still alive, which Zhou Yingcong told her, and Qiu Zhongming knows nothing about it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After some negotiation with Shanghai EMI Records, she was finally invited by Columbia Records to the United States instead of going to the United States alone.
Before leaving, she received a telegram from Kong Lingyi, she invited her to return to Chongqing, Kong Lingyi's kindness was politely rejected by her, but the news that she was about to go to the United States was also spread by the news for some reason, so every port was invited by overseas Chinese, and she had to sing and raise funds for the Anti-Japanese War in the few hours when the cruise ship docked for a short time, which caused a sensation among overseas Chinese in various ports.
Although it took a lot of time to give birth to a child, Xu Peipei is still the favorite singer of the Chinese people, and it is said that when she heard the song on the banks of the Huangpu River for the first time, the Standing Committee of the Standing Committee burst into tears because of the memory of Nanjing, and the overseas Chinese liked her most My Chinese Heart and the successor of the dragon. But what makes Chinese people most proud is that the English songs she sings are very popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and many radio stations will play her songs, and this pride that was refuted by Li Kongrong makes her more famous than any singer in China.
In the scorching sun of San Francisco in July, Queen Mary, a luxury cruise ship of the Canard Steamship Company, slowly approached the shore amid a whistle, and the docks were full of welcoming crowds, and thousands of Chinese holding banners were very conspicuous, they were welcoming Xu Peipei.
"Brother Peng Chun, please tell Mr. Celznik that if he doesn't accept this film, he will definitely regret it." Countless people were welcoming his wife, but Li Kongrong couldn't join in the excitement, even though he was also in San Francisco at this time. He also had an official job in this matter - to persuade the booming Hollywood producer David Selznick to accept his film plan to make a war movie: "Pearl Harbor". It's just that Selznik is not too interested in this.
"Brother Hansheng, but people don't agree!" Zhang Pengchun had previously come to Hollywood to prepare for a movie, although the movie was not made. He said he had no interest in war films, and he thought it was unacceptable for the audience to have a yellow person as the main character, unless you agreed to change the lead role to a white person. That's it, it's still for the sake of your investment in Gone with the Wind, otherwise I wouldn't have seen anyone else at all. ”
Zhang Pengchun didn't mention Gone with the Wind, but when he mentioned investing in Li Kongrong, he regretted it. The No. 1 box office movie from ancient times to the present day is Gone with the Wind in 1939, whose box office is as high as 180 million US dollars, and 180 million at this time is equivalent to 3 billion in 2016. He only learned that Gone with the Wind was filming when Zhang Pengchun wrote a letter to discuss the German-Japanese partition of the United States, but at this time the film had already started shooting, but fortunately, this difficult film finally exceeded the original investment budget of three million US dollars, so he quickly asked Zhang Pengchun to negotiate with MGM and Selznik, and finally invested one million US dollars.
The investment of one million dollars is definitely profitable, but because it is an additional investment, the income cannot be compared with the previous three million. Fortunately, Zhang Pengchun was accepted by Hollywood producers because of this. However, because of the excitement of Gone with the Wind, Li Kongrong plans to make a "Pearl Harbor", which is basically a comprehensive version of the two Pearl Harbor movies in the future, and also adds the content of the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier fleet intercepting Japanese mobile forces and saving Pearl Harbor. The protagonist of such a story is naturally Chinese, but Selznick is against the Chinese as the protagonist, and he does not even like the plot of the Chinese fleet saving Pearl Harbor.
"With the white man as the protagonist, who is he going to make the protagonist?" Li Kongrong pressed down the infinite remorse in his heart and talked about Pearl Harbor with a strong spirit. "Is it Wayne or Guber? Or what Taylor, Gülen? ”
He didn't say it. He's still busy with Gone with the Wind. "Zhang Pengchun doesn't understand what Li Kongrong thinks, and he doesn't understand why Li Kongrong wants to invest in making movies, is it to transfer US-Japan relations?" But the script must be changed, of course, all the details have been changed, the big plot of the Chinese fleet saving Pearl Harbor can be barely retained, but the white man's role must be highlighted, and then the love ...... must be added, yes, that's what he said, and the fleet commander must be Caucasian......"
"Hmm. What about flags? Whose fleet? Li Kongrong didn't laugh angrily, and lit a cigarette before asking.
"Of course, it is the Chinese fleet, but it is commanded by white people, and the male protagonist of the pilot is also white." Zhang Pengchun simply said all the conditions proposed by the other party after reading the script.
"It is impossible for the fleet to be commanded by a white commander." Li Kongrong said, "I'm not afraid that people will steal my command, but I'm afraid that this will cause a misunderstanding of historical facts, that is, it was the white fleet that saved Pearl Harbor, and it has nothing to do with the Chinese Navy." I can only agree that the male protagonist is white, but the secondary character must be Chinese. Speaking of this, he suddenly felt very irritable, "This movie is completely invested by us, and the loss is our business, why is he so picky......"
"Sir, Miss Xu has arrived." Li Kongrong was angry, and Lin Xianxi's adjutant, Lieutenant Zhu Yixin, reminded him that Xu Peipei had arrived at the hotel reservation.
"It's here." Li Kongrong said angrily, but his toes were already facing outward. He continued to talk to Zhang Pengchun about the film, "How much do you think this film will be invested? ”
"He said it would be astronomical." Zhang Pengchun sighed, "Even if it is a model ship, it costs more than 100,000 US dollars for one ship, and there are airplanes, you say that Japanese planes are going to bomb Pearl Harbor, then they have to make aircraft models, and this investment has to be millions of dollars." And he thinks that the movie must be publicized before filming, and it can't be kept secret as you said......"
"Then forget it." Hearing that it could not be kept secret, Li Kongrong immediately calmed down. "Let's find a domestic director."
"Domestic?" Zhang Pengchun disagreed again, he said: "Domestic directors can't enter the American film industry, not to mention that they can't find first-class white actors, and they can't enter American cinemas after the movie is made." ”
"As long as the movie is good." Li Kongrong stood up and said, he didn't believe that no one would watch Pearl Harbor after December 41. After he said this, he said goodbye and left in a hurry, he was in a hurry to see Xu Peipei, the two were separated for two years and two months, and they were finally going to meet today.
"Sir!" Li Kongrong appeared in a suit at the British hotel where Xu Peipei was staying, Qiu Zhongming, who had known that he was back, immediately stood up when he saw him, and when he saw Li Kongrong, his task was finally completed.
"Take a break." Li Kongrong suddenly blushed, he was not used to revealing his true feelings in front of his subordinates. But he couldn't suppress his eagerness to see Xu Peipei, so after saying a little rest, he pushed open the door of the hotel, and saw the figure who had been thinking about it for more than two years, and he hugged it excitedly.
"Ahh The woman screamed in panic, even if Li Kongrong couldn't stop saying 'Pepe, it's me'. At this time, Xu Peipei suddenly ran out of the room, and Li Kongrong realized that he was hugging the wrong person, and he was hugging her sister Xu Xiaoxin.
"Look at your ......" Xu Peipei covered her mouth and smiled, her trembling appearance, "You scared Xiao Xin!" ”
"Me!" Li Kongrong's face instantly turned red to the back of his head, he had never seen Xu Xiaoxin, and the two sisters were extremely similar. "I'm sorry, my brother-in-law apologized to you." Li Kongrong said crampedly, but Xu Xiaoxin wiped her tears and ran out.
"Look at ......" Xu Peipei wanted to pull her sister but didn't hold it, so she had to blame her husband in turn. But before she finished speaking, she was hugged by Li Kongrong into her arms, and then her lips were gagged - the man rudely stuffed his tongue into her mouth, and it stirred, as if it wanted to occupy every inch of it. The long kiss was suffocating, and when Xu Peipei was about to lose her breath, Li Kongrong let go of the woman.
"Hansheng, I'm dizzy, I'm dizzy... Hold me... Hold me quickly......" Xu Peipei closed her eyes happily, and her whole body was snuggled in the man's arms. She gasped, inhaling the man's scent and stroking his broad back.
She was so worried that it was a dream, and it was only when Li Kongrong carried her into the bedroom and threw her on the soft bed that she opened her eyes again. The man was smiling, and she knew the meaning in his gaze.
"If you don't study well, you have to ...... in broad daylight" Xu Peipei was a little embarrassed, but her outstretched hand did not push the man away, but pulled him over by the collar.
Xu Xiaoxin ran out of the room and squatted in the garden of the hotel and cried for a while, she had never been hugged by a man like this, that feeling made her whole body hot, trembling, and helpless, and she had no other reaction except screaming, but in retrospect, the hug was so tight, and there was no intention to hurt her, some were just a kind of eagerness, like a flame.
She didn't care about the man chosen by Sister A, but when she heard the music scores of those natural sounds, she felt the praise of the people in the market, and she couldn't help but admire him deeply, but she couldn't imagine that the first meeting between the two was a hot hug like a couple.
"Miss Xu, are you okay?" Qiu Zhongming also went downstairs, and as a married person, it was naturally not good for him to stay outside the door for a long time.
"I'm ......, I'm fine." Xu Xiaoxin wiped away her tears and looked at Qiu Zhongming casually.
"The chief is actually a good person, but he is too good, he is afraid that others will see him as a bully and take advantage, so he pretends to be fierce and vicious to scare people." Qiu Zhongming talked about a confession of Li Kongrong when he was in Germany. He thought that Li Kongrong's sudden appearance frightened Xu Xiaoxin, but he didn't expect Li Kongrong to hug Xu Xiaoxin as soon as he entered the door. "I ......"
"Adjutant Qiu, don't say it, I'm fine." Xu Xiaoxinqiang smiled and made herself happy.
"It's okay." Qiu Zhongming also smiled, and he said again: "The chief talked about the child when he was in Germany, but unfortunately the child didn't come this time, he doesn't know if he will be disappointed." ”
The child is only two years old, so it is naturally difficult to bring it to the United States for safety. Speaking of children, Xu Xiaoxin thought of her sister's suffering in the past two years, she glanced at the window on the second floor, and said, "I hope he knows how Sister A has come over these two years, and give Sister a name as soon as possible." ”
"Hey." Qiu Zhongming sighed when he heard this, and he said, "The chief said back then that if you don't defeat the Japanese, you won't get married. Now the Navy is the same with the commander, and everyone's wedding date is postponed. ”
Xu Xiaoxin hoped that Sister A and her brother-in-law would get married in the United States, and when she was disappointed when she heard Qiu Zhongming say this, Qiu Zhongming said again: "Miss Xu, with the chief's deep love for Sister Ling, he has to take Sister Ling in this life, so what do we have to worry about?" ”
Qiu Zhongming and Xu Xiaoxin downstairs were talking, but the spring in the upstairs bedroom was boundless, and the joy of reunion made the two forget the whole world.
"It's called Xianggong." Li Kongrong gasped, and Xu Peipei pillowed on his arm, like a coquettish cat.
"Xianggong!" At this time, every inch of the woman's skin was close to him, and the place next to it was hot.
"Call again." Li Kongrong's hand stroked from her smooth back to her buttocks, and slapped it lightly in the most upturned place—he noticed that the girl's slender figure was gone, replaced by a rich curve that made him want to repeat it countless times.
"Xianggong!" Xu Peipei felt the change in Li Kongrong, but she smiled, she was no longer the unknown girl before, she hoped that men could be obsessed with herself, and even, she had listened to some pornographic jokes, in order to use her body to please her man.
"Did you miss me?" Li Kongrong changed his posture and leaned sideways to kiss his wife's face.
"Well, I think about it, I think about it every day, I think about it every night." Xu Peipei, who was still with his eyes closed, hugged him tighter, "Hansheng, I feel like I'm dreaming now, I'm afraid that when I open my eyes, you'll be gone." ”
"Open your eyes." Li Kongrong's body turned again, and he leaned over to look at Xu Peipei. "Open your eyes and look at me."
"Don't." Xu Peipei smiled, but in the end she still opened her eyes and looked at her man. "Ah, you seem to ...... I've gotten fat. Her little hand caressed his face.
"Fat?" Li Kongrong couldn't help laughing, men and women generally say 'you have become thinner, you have become older' or something, but his little wife said that she had become fat. He blinked his eyes and said: "When there is nothing to eat on the ship, we will go to the island and iceberg to hunt bears, that kind of big white bear is a few hundred catties a head, and more than 30 people can eat for a week. ”
"Giggle......" Xu Peipei smiled and stroked the man's cheek, feeling like a child when he said eat and eat.
"What about the daughter? Didn't you bring it with you? As if she had a heart, when Xu Peipei thought of the child, Li Kongrong also asked about the child.
"Yes. The child is too young for me to bring. When it comes to the child, Xu Peipei no longer has a smile on her face. Hansheng, when will we be together as a family? I haven't seen you yet. ”
"Don't worry, we'll be together after the fight." Li Kongrong said. "We'll be together for the next two months, and then you'll be back in Myanmar at the end of July. Don't worry, I'll go back too. (To be continued.) )